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Sometimes You Get What You Dream For, Mr. Bush: Since You Started the War, Iraq Has
Finally Become a Nation of Terrorist Attacks

BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY

I sent this letter to the editor today to the Houston Chronicle, USA Today, and the Arizona Republic. Pray that it gets published in at least one of them.

I find it ironic that we invaded Iraq on the pretense that it was a breeding ground for terrorists, yet only now that we've invaded do we see real terrorist activity, i.e. the bombing of the U.N. building today, as well as the Jordanian embassy building a couple of weeks ago. And then there are the ongoing attacks on our troops. No Iraqi had killed an American since the first Gulf War, prior to Bush's invasion.

Prior to the invasion Americans had died at the hands of Libyan terrorists (Pan Am 103), Saudi terrorists (the Khobar towers in 1996 and of course, September 11), Indonesia al Qaeda terrorists (the Bali nightclub bombing last year), Africans (our embassies in 1998), numerous Palestinian suicide bombers, and the U.S.S. Cole bombing off the coast of Yemen. Yet we invaded none of these countries. Instead we launched a war against a country that had no pattern of terrorist activity. In fact, in the entire 900 page report on September 11, Iraq wasn't even mentioned. In effect, our invasion of Iraq has resulted in adding another country where terrorists kill indiscriminately, rather than reducing that number. We've provided Middle East terrorists additional motive, as well as additional opportunity, and willing recruits.

Lance Collins
Sugar Land, TX

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